rspec users - Sep 2010 - response.should have_text leads to undefined method `has_text?'

One of my controllers directly renders some JSON output that I would
like to test with RSpec. For that I use ''response.should
have_text("foobar")'' in my spec file, but that leads to a

Failure/Error: response.should have_text("enim")
undefined method `has_text?'' for #<ActionController::TestResponse:
0xb6736944>

I read here somewhere that webrat should be in the Gemfile, but that
also did not solve the problem.

Best regards,
Kai

A big hello.

I would like to test a controller that directly renders some JSON output (by
using "render :json => @entity_names"). For that task I tried in my
spec file "response.should have_text(''["enim",
"enita"]'')". Unfortunately I always get that error:
Failure/Error: response.should have_text(''["enim",
"enita"]'')
undefined method `has_text?'' for " ":String

(Also a "response.body.should have_text(''["enim",
"enita"]'')as someone suggested on Stackoverflow did not solve
the problem.)

Do I miss some gem that provides that method? Here my Gemfile:

source ''http://rubygems.org''

gem ''rails'', ''>= 3.0.0''
gem ''mysql2''
gem ''mongrel''
gem ''devise''
gem ''will_paginate'', :git =>
''git://github.com/mislav/will_paginate.git'', :branch =>   
''rails3''
gem ''thinking-sphinx'', :git     =>
''git://github.com/freelancing-god/thinking-sphinx.git'',
:branch  => ''rails3'', :require =>
''thinking_sphinx''

group :test, :development do
  gem ''rspec-rails'', ''>= 2.0.0.beta.19''
  gem ''steak'', :git =>
''git://github.com/cavalle/steak.git''
  gem ''webrat''
  gem ''capybara''
  gem ''capybara-envjs''
  gem ''shoulda''
  gem ''launchy''
  gem ''autotest''
  gem ''autotest-rails''
  gem ''test_notifier''
  gem ''rails3-generators''
  gem ''factory_girl_rails''
  gem ''populator''
  gem ''faker''
  gem ''random_data''
  gem ''database_cleaner'', :git =>
''git://github.com/bmabey/database_cleaner.git''
  gem ''delorean''
end

Best regards,
Kai
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On Oct 2, 2010, at 2:27 PM, Kai Schlamp wrote:
> A big hello.
> 
> I would like to test a controller that directly renders some JSON output
(by using "render :json => @entity_names"). For that task I tried
in my spec file "response.should have_text(''["enim",
"enita"]'')". Unfortunately I always get that error:
> Failure/Error: response.should have_text(''["enim",
"enita"]'')
> undefined method `has_text?'' for " ":String
have_text is not supported in rspec-2.

For JSON, I like to deserialize the output and match against the decoded JSON:

json = ActiveSupport::JSON::decode(response.body)
json.should eq(%w[enim enita])

Then you could wrap that in a matcher:

RSpec::Matchers.define :be_json do |expected_json|
  match do |response|
    json = ActiveSupport::JSON::decode(response.body)
    json.should == expected_json
  end
end

response.should be_json(%w[enim enita])

HTH,
David

> 
> (Also a "response.body.should have_text(''["enim",
"enita"]'')as someone suggested on Stackoverflow did not solve
the problem.)
> 
> Do I miss some gem that provides that method? Here my Gemfile:
> 
> source ''http://rubygems.org''
> 
> gem ''rails'', ''>= 3.0.0''
> gem ''mysql2''
> gem ''mongrel''
> gem ''devise''
> gem ''will_paginate'', :git =>
''git://github.com/mislav/will_paginate.git'', :branch =>   
''rails3''
> gem ''thinking-sphinx'', :git     =>
''git://github.com/freelancing-god/thinking-sphinx.git'',
:branch  => ''rails3'', :require =>
''thinking_sphinx''
> 
> group :test, :development do
>  gem ''rspec-rails'', ''>=
2.0.0.beta.19''
>  gem ''steak'', :git =>
''git://github.com/cavalle/steak.git''
>  gem ''webrat''
>  gem ''capybara''
>  gem ''capybara-envjs''
>  gem ''shoulda''
>  gem ''launchy''
>  gem ''autotest''
>  gem ''autotest-rails''
>  gem ''test_notifier''
>  gem ''rails3-generators''
>  gem ''factory_girl_rails''
>  gem ''populator''
>  gem ''faker''
>  gem ''random_data''
>  gem ''database_cleaner'', :git =>
''git://github.com/bmabey/database_cleaner.git''
>  gem ''delorean''
> end
> 
> Best regards,
> Kai
> -- 
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On Sep 30, 2010, at 3:50 PM, turkan wrote:
> One of my controllers directly renders some JSON output that I would
> like to test with RSpec. For that I use ''response.should
> have_text("foobar")'' in my spec file, but that leads to
a
> 
> Failure/Error: response.should have_text("enim")
> undefined method `has_text?'' for
#<ActionController::TestResponse:
> 0xb6736944>
> 
> I read here somewhere that webrat should be in the Gemfile, but that
> also did not solve the problem.
The webrat matcher is contain:

response.should contain("enim")

HTH,
David

Where are the changes to RSpec2 documented?  I haven''t been able to
find a
list of changes that would include something like this removal of 
have_text.  Thanks.
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On Jan 13, 2011, at 1:04 PM, Kurt wrote:
> Where are the changes to RSpec2 documented?  I haven''t been able
to find a list of changes that would include something like this removal of
have_text.  Thanks.
have_text being pulled is not documented yet. Oversight on my part. Just added
an issue for it:

https://github.com/rspec/rspec-rails/issues/issue/305

per other email on this list:

official docs are at http://relishapp.com/rspec.

Info about contributing to the docs can be found there and at
http://blog.davidchelimsky.net/2010/12/23/rspec-2-documentation-2/.